On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 08:07:57 GMT, Tony Morris wrote:
I am trying to get xmobar running on GNOME3. However, xmonad starts the process, then it quits. I am not sure why, but I know that it quits because I changed the output handler (ppOutput) to first use writeFile then to the xmobar Handle. I saw the contents that would have been piped to xmobar in the file.
If I start xmobar manually after xmonad has started, it starts fine, reading "Updating..." awaiting input. I have minimised ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs and I have tried many variants to try to resolve the issue:
https://gist.github.com/4129597
I have also tried fiddling with ~/.xmobarrc but this is how it currently stands:
https://gist.github.com/4129924
Any tips are immensely appreciated, because I have run out of ideas!
I use xmonadpropwrite which is what xmonad starts. I've found that it's much more reliable at starting properly (xmobar doesn't start properly and consistently without a shell wrapper I have). Since xmobar itself isn't on the XMonad pipe anymore, I can update my configuration, restart it, or whatever without having to restart XMonad to get the pipes hooked up again. -- Ben